Arc 12Chapters 289–315
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Players debated how to divide Adventurer World loot before Hong Yang led his five-person team into the Bone Throne instance. They defeated its first-act boss, Bone Vanguard Karon, and obtained a valuable Rule Fragment, leaving the team rich and the regional channel furious with envy.
Hong Yang’s team fought through Bone King City, learned that the instance preserved the Bone Race’s destruction, and defeated the second-act boss before being wiped out in the third act. After selling the March of the Dead Fragment to Little Mage, the team returned to instance challenges, while Di Nian prepared to unite the five nodes and attack the Golden Ocean Domain.
Di Nian Evil Spirit united with the four great Evil Spirits to attack the Gigantification Domain, but the Golden Domain’s Rule-bearing Giant Tiger turned the battle against them. The Combat Zerg and Player Race mobilized toward the battlefield, and Evil Eye announced that their entry was compulsory despite Di Nian Bully’s objection.
Di Nian Evil Spirit, the Player Race, and the Combat Zerg converged on Divine Tiger’s Gigantification Domain, turning the fight against the Giant Beast Legion into a three-sided war. As the armies clashed, Di Nian, Star Network, and the Zerg Master Brain each brought their distinct command methods to bear, leaving the four Evil Spirits stunned by Di Nian’s full tactical power.
The Three Great Disasters tore through the Giant Beast Legion and pressed its survivors back toward the Twelve Divine Pillars and the gigantification rule imprint. As the factions fought over the imprint, Monster Beast Style players made a desperate stand to preserve their fading playstyle, while Di Nian Evil Spirit prepared to prove how far it had grown.
The Star Network switched to grade A power and used its enhanced calculations to direct the battle, while the Player Race opened a second front to draw Dark Tide and Insect Race forces away from the Gigantification Domain. The chapter ended with Divine King and a million players teleporting back to the main battlefield at full health, suddenly reversing the apparent defeat.
The Star Network reversed the losing battle in the Gigantification Domain by teleporting a million players onto the field, allowing them to overwhelm the Dark Tide and claim the Gigantification Rule. The Di Nian Evil Spirit accepted the defeat but vowed to grow stronger and face the Mysterious Commander again.
Qi Sheng reshaped the gigantification rule into a powerful growth path for Monster Beast Style players, and the system announced new abilities, Tyrant Hall, and a coming battle event. As players celebrated the update and debated the new path, Nightfall Is Coming headed out to prepare a guide.
Nightfall Is Coming explored the six Tyrant Paths, tested Qi Eater with the Taotie Path in the new Tyrant Battlefield event, and then studied other players’ builds to identify their strengths and counters. The event’s matchups revealed several powerful combinations and sparked a revival of Monster Beast Style.
A Lan expanded the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s consignment business to help players sell Adventurer Instance loot to alien races while supporting the Player Faction. After announcing the pilot program, he began writing a Five-Dimensional Valuation Method guide to help players price Trading House goods.
Divine King reviewed how Di Nian Bully’s Evil Eye predicted the Divine Hall regiment and concluded he needed new tactics rather than trying to outthink Bully. He developed battlefield roles for updated Monster Beast Style builds and summoned his guild to begin testing them in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
Qi Sheng investigated an anomalous force targeting the Mechanical Legion and traced its origins to Kongjie, a player in Falling Star World whose game contained the Virtual Runes Civilization. As Kongjie’s civilization suffered a powerful demon invasion, its altar Illusion asked him to upgrade his real-world computer, leaving him stunned.
Kongjie refused to surrender Illusion and led the Virtual Runes Empire through years of wars until it conquered all Seven Continents. As the End Dharma Race’s invasion threatened his life, the empire’s ultimate weapon broke the boundary between virtuality and reality, bringing its forces to protect him.
Kongjie reunited with Illusion as the Virtual Runes Legion descended, destroyed the End Dharma Race, and then parted from Illusion as it set out for the Monster World. Qi Sheng learned how the Legion had been created and why it had returned to challenge the Mechanical Legion, while the Star Network prepared to pursue the powerful rules held by both sides.
Qi Sheng reviewed the Player Faction’s playstyles and their returns before turning his attention to Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group’s final willpower assessment at the Against the Tide Training Camp. As the trainees endured a month of baleful wind, Li Zheng and his teammates used Life Connection to transfer and spread their pain among the other trainees.
Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group helped their Training Camp buddies endure the baleful wind, but an unprecedented storm exhausted the trainees’ blood energy and left them facing death. As the others began giving Li Zheng their tokens and final messages, he revealed that the players had secretly brought recovery potions and food, leaving Ghost Eye stunned by the Player Race’s hidden supplies.
Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group revealed their hidden food supplies and fed their starving fellow trainees during the fiendish-wind training. After the trainees resumed enduring the winds, Instructor Demon Shield arrived and was baffled by how healthy they looked.
Li Zheng and the trainees encountered Fate Throat, a demigod Equivalent Gamble Merchant, on their way back to camp and learned how his fate wagers worked. Eat Dirt gambled his parents as stakes and lost, prompting Emperor Zhao's power to descend on Earth as the chapter ended.
After Qi Sheng protected Eat Dirt’s parents from the Fate Rules, Fate Throat ended their wager, and Qi Sheng patched the game to prevent Monster World’s rules from affecting Earth. He launched the Game Workshop and its creative contest, whose player-made Plugins quickly spread; by the third day, Qi Sheng was preparing to recruit five million new players.
Qi Sheng released five million Monster World access slots, and Ning Shu won a player qualification after learning that his mother, Ning Qing, needed urgent treatment in Eclipse City. He resolved to use the game to earn the sacrificial power needed to get her there within twenty days.
Ning Shu entered Monster World and hunted through Eternal Silence Ice Lake, using ranged attacks and later a controlled Frost-Armored Giant to improve his efficiency. Still short of the Sacrificial Power needed for his mother’s treatment, he found a gravely wounded Six-Armed Profound Ice whose former level suggested a risky opportunity.
On the trainees’ journey back to Splitthroat Grounds, Fate Throat, a Demigod merchant of the Fate Race, offered them Equivalent Gambles. Eat Dirt lost a wager using his parents as stakes, and the resulting Fate Rule began erasing them on Earth as Qi Sheng intervened.
After Eat Dirt’s bet with Fate Throat triggered the Fate Rules against his parents, Qi Sheng protected them with the Emperor Zhao Self-Fixated Origin and prepared updates to prevent similar incursions into Earth. He launched the Game Workshop and its creative contest, whose plugins quickly transformed player life, and ended by considering recruiting five million more players.
Qi Sheng announced that five million new players would receive access to Monster World, and Ning Shu won a slot after learning his mother, Ning Qing, needed emergency treatment in Eclipse City. He ended the chapter with a chance to use the game to secure her treatment, though he still had to enter Monster World and earn enough Sacrificial Power.
Ning Shu raced to earn Sacrificial Power for his mother’s medical treatment, placing 98th in the Leveling Frenzy and adapting his lone-wolf hunting style by controlling a Frost-Armored Giant as a tank. With only eight days left and his earnings still far short of the goal, he found a gravely wounded Six-Armed Profound Ice whose original Hunting Level was 382, inspiring a bold idea.